David W. Robertson

Publications

• Vessel Status in Maritime Law: Does Lozman Set a New Course
  44 J. MAR. L. & COM. (2013) · Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce · 2013
• OPA and Economic Loss: A Response to Professor Goldberg
  30 MISS. COLL. L. REV. (2012) · Mississippi College Law Review · 2012
• The Oil Pollution Act's Provisions on Damages for Economic Loss
  30 MISS. COLL. L. REV. (2012) · Mississippi College Law Review · 2012
• Our High Court of Admiralty and Its Sometimes Peculiar Relationship with Congress
  55 ST. LOUIS U. L.J. (2011) · Saint Louis University Law Journal · 2011
• Punitive Damages in U.S. Maritime Law: Miles, Baker, and Townsend
  70 LA. L. REV. (2010) · Louisiana Law Review · 2010

• How the Supreme Court's New Definition of Vessel is Affecting Seaman Status, Admiralty Jurisdiction, and Other Areas of Maritime Law
  39 J. MAR. L. & COM. (2008) · Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce · 2008
• Good Vibrations: An Introduction
  39 J. MAR. L. & COM. (2008) · Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce · 2008
• The Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act's Provisions on Jurisdiction, Remedies, and Choice of Law: Correcting the Fifth Circuit's Mistakes
  38 J. MAR. L. & COM. (2007) · Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce · 2007
• Admiralty Jurisdiction over One Co-Tortfeasor Cannot Effectuate Admiralty Jurisdiction over Another
  37 J. MAR. L. & COM. (2006) · Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce · 2006
• The Supreme Court's Approach to Determining Seaman Status: Discerning the Law Amid Loose Language and Catchphrases
  34 J. MAR. L. & COM. (2003) · Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce · 2003
• The Admiralty Extension Act Solution
  34 J. MAR. L. & COM. (2003) · Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce · 2003
• Eschewing Ersatz Percentages: A Simplified Vocabulary of Comparative Fault
  45 ST. LOUIS U. L.J. (2001) · Saint Louis University Law Journal · 2001
• Personal Injury and Wrongful Death
  31 J. MAR. L. & COM. (2000) · Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce · 2000

• The Right to a Jury Trial in Jones Act Cases: Choosing the Forum versus Choosing the Procedure
  30 J. MAR. L. & COM. (1999) · Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce · 1999
• Summertime Sailing and the U.S. Supreme Court: The Need for a National Admiralty Court
  29 J. MAR. L. & COM. (1998) · Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce · 1998
• Love and Fury: Recent Radical Revisions to the Law of Comparative Fault
  59 LA. L. REV. (1998) · Louisiana Law Review · 1998
• Punitive Damages in American Maritime Law
  28 J. MAR. L. & COM. (1997) · Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce · 1997
• The Vocabulary of Negligence Law: Continuing Causation Confusion
  58 LA. L. REV. (1997) · Louisiana Law Review · 1997
• Allocatlng Authority Among Institutional Decision Makers in Louisiana State-Court Negligence and Strict Liability Cases
  57 LA. L. REV. (1997) · Louisiana Law Review · 1997
• Court-Awarded Attorneys' Fees in Maritime Cases: The American Rule in Admiralty
  27 J. MAR. L. & COM. (1996) · Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce · 1996
• Displacement of State Law by Federal Maritime Law
  26 J. MAR. L. & COM. (1995) · Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce · 1995
• Admiralty and Maritime Litigation in State Court
  55 LA. L. REV. (1995) · Louisiana Law Review · 1995
• The Texas Employer's Liability in Tort for Injuries to an Employee Occurring in the Course of the Employment.
  24 ST. MARY'S L.J. (1993) · St. Mary's Law Journal · 1993
• The Law of Seaman Status Clarified
  23 J. MAR. L. & COM. (1992) · Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce · 1992
• Judge Rubin's Maritime Tort Decisions
  52 LA. L. REV. (1992) · Louisiana Law Review · 1992

• Recovery in Louisiana Tort Law for Intangible Economic Loss: Negligence Actions and the Tort of Intentional Interference with Contractual Relations
  46 LA. L. REV. (1986) · Louisiana Law Review · 1986
• Current Problems in Seamen's Remedies: Seaman Status, Relationship Between Jones Act and LHWCA, and Unseaworthiness Actions by Workers Not Covered by LHWCA
  45 LA. L. REV. (1985) · Louisiana Law Review · 1985
• Ruminations on Comparative Fault, Duty-Risk Analysis, Affirmative Defenses, and Defensive Doctrines in Negligence and Strict Liability Litigation in Louisiana
  44 LA. L. REV. (1984) · Louisiana Law Review · 1984

• Jurisdiction, Shipowner Negligence and Stevedore Immunities under the 1972 Amendments to the Longshoremen's Act
  28 MERCER L. REV. (1977) · Mercer Law Review · 1977
• Negligence Actions by Longshoremen against Shipowners under the 1972 Amendments to the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act
  7 J. MAR. L. & COM. (1976) · Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce · 1976
• Admiralty Procedure and Jurisdiction After the 1966 Unification
  74 MICH. L. REV. 1627 (1976) · Michigan Law Review · 1976
• Reason Versus Rule In Louisina Tort Law: Dialogues On Hill v. Lundin & Associates, Inc.
  34 LA. L. REV. (1973) · Louisiana Law Review · 1973

• The Precedent Value of Conclusions of Fact in Civil Cases in England and Louisiana
  29 LA. L. REV. (1968) · Louisiana Law Review · 1968
• Some Interesting Features of the Proposed Trust Code
  24 LA. L. REV. (1964) · Louisiana Law Review · 1964
• Private Law: Conventional Obligations - Sales
  24 LA. L. REV. (1964) · Louisiana Law Review · 1964
• Private Law: Torts
  24 LA. L. REV. (1964) · Louisiana Law Review · 1964
• Private Law: Torts
  23 LA. L. REV. (1963) · Louisiana Law Review · 1963
• Inter-Sovereign Certification as an Answer to the Abstention Problem
  21 LA. L. REV. (1961) · Louisiana Law Review · 1961
• Appellate Review of Facts in Louisiana Civil Cases
  21 LA. L. REV. (1961) · Louisiana Law Review · 1961
• Federal Jurisdiction - Doctrine of Equitable Abstention Applied to Civil Rights Case
  20 LA. L. REV. (1960) · Louisiana Law Review · 1960

• The Doctrine of Anticipatory Breach of Contract
  20 LA. L. REV. (1959) · Louisiana Law Review · 1959
• Constitutional Law - Contempt Conviction for Out-of-Court Photography
  19 LA. L. REV. (1959) · Louisiana Law Review · 1959